1st Edition

Multisensory Perception and Communication Brain, Behaviour, Environment Interaction, and Development in the Early Years

Edited By Lakshmi Gogate Copyright 2019
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

Infants learn to communicate through everyday social interaction with their caregivers in a multisensory world involving sight, hearing, touch and smell. The neural and behavioural underpinnings of caregiver-infant multisensory interaction and communication, however, have remained largely unexplored in research across disciplines. This book highlights this largely uncharted territory to... Read more

Introduction – Development of Early Multisensory Perception and Communication: From Environmental and Behavioral to Neural Signatures  1. Behavioral and Neural Foundations of Multisensory Face-Voice Perception in Infancy  2. Early Verb-Action and Noun-Object Mapping Across Sensory Modalities: A Neuro-Developmental View  3. Visual Event-Related Potentials to Novel Objects Predict Rapid Word Learning Ability in 20-Month-Olds  4. The Multisensory Nature of Verbal Discourse in Parent–Toddler Interactions  5. Contingencies Between Infants’ Gaze, Vocal, and Manual Actions and Mothers’ Object-Naming: Longitudinal Changes From 4 to 9 Months  6. Synchrony Detection of Linguistic Stimuli in the Presence of Faces: Neuropsychological Implications for Language Development in ASD

Biography

Lakshmi Gogate is a Researcher whose work focuses on the developmental dynamics of word learning in infants prior to and after their first word production, and multisensory processes during mother-child interaction. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, The March of Dimes and the Thrasher Research Fund.